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Zentropa sign deal with producer Regnar Grasten
Zentropa has invited a new partner into Filmbyen, Copenhagen. Local producer RegnarGrasten has moved his production facilities from DetDanske Filmstudie where many popular classics were made to Zentropa.Zentropa will produce Grasten'snext three films, one of which is a fourth sequel to the popular Anja & Viktor series, a Christmasfilm for ...
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Foxx to star in Universal's Middle East actioner The Kingdom
Jamie Foxx will star in The Kingdom for Universal Pictures based on anoriginal idea brought to the studio by Peter Berg and Michael Mann.As previously announced,Berg will direct the thriller based on a screenplay by Matthew MichaelCarnahan. Mann will produce through his company Forward Pass, along with ScottStuber. Mary Parent ...
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High Point invests in thriller The Front Line
London-based sales company High Point Films has invested "a substantial sales guarantee" against world rights for The Front Line, a feature film being directed by David Gleeson. Nathalie Lichtenthaeler's Wide Eye Films is producing.The thriller is shooting now in and around Dublin and Hamburg. Eriq Ebouaney (Kingdom of Heaven), James ...
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Hong Kong's Focus turns to Father And Son
Hong Kong's Focus Films has picked up international rights toPatrick Tam Ka-ming's Father And Son,starring Aaron Kwok (Divergence) andCharlie Young (Seven Swords), whichstarts shooting this month in Malaysia. The film marks Tam'slong-awaited return to directing after a stint teaching screenwriting anddeveloping the story of Father And Son.Regarded as one of ...
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Pang brothers sign to direct The Darkness for Platinum
LosAngeles-based Platinum Studios and Blue Star Pictures have signed Danny andOxide Pang to direct The Darkness, based on the Top Cow Productions comic book.Platinumwill finance 50% of the production that is at Miramax with a progress toproduction clause through January 2006. The project is currently out towriters.Platinum is alsoteaming up ...
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Promising signs for Singapore digital animation
Singapore is boasting a first in digitalanimation with the release of Zodiac, The Race Begins, the city-state's first 3D animation feature.The $2m animation which is about themythical race of the 12 Chinese zodiac animals, is the debut film project ofCubix International, initially a branding consultancy firm in Singapore beforebranching out ...
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Lago weighs in on Lynch's Surveillance
Jennifer Lynch's long-gestating project Surveillance will go into production with Germany's Lago Film backing the $10m production.Previously announced for a 2004 start date, the filmco-written by Kent Harper tells the story of an FBI agent who is tracking aserial killer with the help of three would-be victims, all of whom ...
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Andrea makes something of Big Nothing as filming begins
Jean-BaptisteAndrea will start principal photography on December 4 for the black comedy BigNothing. The cast featuresJoining David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Natasha McElhone, Mimi Rogers, MauryChaykin, and Alice Eve. The film is about a frustrated teacher who embarks on ablackmailing scheme with two con artists. Big Nothing is a Pathe Pictures ...
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Hong Kong lines up Chinese New Year blockbusters
A live-actiontake on popular animated character McDull, martial arts legend Huo Yuanjia and a comedy about shopping are set to battle itout in Hong Kong and other Chinese-speaking territories next Chinese New Year.Peter Ho-sun Chanand McDull creator Brian Tseare producing McDull, The Alumni,which combines live-action and animated sequences to recount ...
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Torres, Pardue star in Gossner's South Of Pico
Gina Torres andKip Pardue are heading the cast of US drama South Of Pico, which has started shooting on LosAngeles under first-time feature director Ernst Gossner.Inspired by trueevents, the story tracks four seemingly ordinary people in Los Angeles whoselives are changed when they witness the accidental death of an 11-year-oldgirl.Paul ...
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Greengrass starts shooting 9/11 re-enactment at Pinewood
Director Paul Greengrass has started principal photography on his9/11 feature film Flight 93 for Universal Pictures and Working Title Films in associationwith Sidney Kimmel Entertainment.Greengrass (Bloody Sunday, The Bourne Supremacy) started shooting Flight 93 at the UK's Pinewood Studios on November14, and shooting will continue on location in the UK ...
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Verhoeven steers new course for shipwreck tale
Paul Verhoeven and his regularscriptwriter Gerard Soeteman are pushing ahead again with Batavia's Graveyard, their blood-curdlinghistorical epic about the shipwreck of the Bataviain 1629. The film was previously set up at FilmFour."It's a story in the directionof the Bounty but it's much more about the development of a fascist regime," ...
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Pool signs to direct Mort for Equinoxe
Montreal-based EquinoxeProductions has signed Lea Pool to direct and co-adapt a film of GilCourtemanche's second novel Une Belle Mort, published this autumn in Quebec. Author Courtemanche will co-write thescreenplay. Equinoxe recently completedpost-production on Un Dimanche A Kigali, the film based on Courtemanche's Rwandan genocide drama which shot inRwanda in earlier ...
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New Saw ready to make the cut next Halloween
LionsGate Films has announced it will release a third Saw film for Hallowe'en next year. Currently scheduled for an October 27, 2006 release, the news of Saw III mirrors last year when the surprise success of the low budget original quickly prompted the announcement of a sequel for this year.Produced ...
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Pressman revives Mutant Chronicles with Thomas Jane
Thomas Jane will star in thelong-in-development sci-fi environmental thriller The Mutant Chronicles for Pressman & Company based on ParadoxEntertainment's board game of the same name. The UK's Simon Hunter willdirect the project after Ed Pressman financed a $70,000 seven-minute trailedshowcasing the young filmmaker's talents and screened it for Jane, other ...
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Bridge opens for Fortissimo
Dutch-HK-based sales agent FortissimoFilms has reported a string of sales on documentary The Bridge, which itpicked up at AFM. Directed by Eric Steel and following the stories of peoplewho decided to commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge in 2004,the film has already sold to Japan (Tornado), Village ...
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Northern Ireland enjoys a production boom
Northern Ireland is enjoying a production boom with several filmsbacked by the Northern Ireland Film & Television Commission (NIFTC) beginning shoots.Seven films are due to start principal photography between now andnext Spring start in Belfast and along the border with the Republic of Ireland.Alreadyshooting is 48 Angels, a low-budget feature ...
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Sogepaq takes on Banderas' Spanish project
Sogepaq has picked upinternational rights to Antonio Banderas' second film as director, The WayOf The English, which beginsshooting next Monday in Spain.The film is a co-productionbetween Banderas' own Green Moon Producciones and Sogepaq sister companySogecine.It marks Banderas' return tothe Spanish film industry, where he also plans to begin producing local ...
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BoyTown, December Boys crank up in Australia
Cameras started rolling onMonday on two high-profile Australian productions - BoyTown, the Molloy Boy Productions follow-up to Crackerjack, and December Boys, starring Daniel Radcliffe of Harry Potter fame.Mick Molloy co-wrote,co-produces and is one of the stars of BoyTown,just as he was on Crackerjack, whichgrossed $5.6m (A$7.7m) for distributor Roadshow and ...
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Baldwin to star opposite Gellar in Odd Lot/Media 8's Guide
Alec Baldwin has been cast opposite Sarah Michelle Gellar in OddLot Entertainment's upcoming adaptation of international bestseller TheGirls' Guide To Hunting And Fishing. Media 8 is handling international rights on the project, whichcharts the romantic travails of an ambitious Manhattan book editor who is tornbetween her boyfriend and a notorious ...